pmccarthy

I grew up in Broken Hill and don’t believe I was intellectually impaired. But anyone living alongside a major road in our cities would have ingested far more lead than I did.

That will be another useless note to distract from the important ones.

My trouble is getting the fly open in time.

Much damage to that nosewheel spat?

Reno race pilot died yesterday. Engine failure, and stall spin trying the impossible turn. A most experienced pilot.

That is the argument used by the Taliban against religious transgressors.

I have found most people on this site have been converted to the warmist religion.

Agreed. Lead oxides, carbonates near the surface of the earth are quite soluble and get into the water system. Lead sulphides, deeper in the earth and unaltered, are much more stable.

They hover over Avocado crops to prevent frost damage. Or they did in NZ some years ago.

It is easy to print WAC sections from OzRunways. I have only an A4 printer so need several pages for a long trip. I don’t know how to scale them correctly but print the route with 10 mile ticks.

I feel sorry for the 152 pilot. He could not have anticipated anyone would come in so fast. It would have seemed reasonable to get his touch and go done before the 340 arrived, until the moment he realised too late that something weird was happening.

A lot of Americans would enjoy an electric beaver.

Gold would hang together just fine. It is quite strong.

I have one on order, due to dock Oct 2, can’t wait.

God point about the ASI. Perhaps it should be bigger and right in your face. It doesn’t get the prominence it deserves.

You would need a split screen to get porn and Westpac apps running at the same time.

There is a new mechanical gust lock option for Foxbat y-sticks. But I like the bungee cord version which stretches across the pilot's seat. Can’t miss it.

I would change the oil cold rather than try it.

According to several sources there have been three classic aircraft crashes in the last two days in the USA, two of them fatal. A Trojan, a Bonanza and a Cessna Birdog. And one undercarriage failure on landing at Oshkosh (Cessna 310) so far.

About a dozen years ago, someone tried to pull out a bogged aircraft at Birdsville with a car by tying a rope to the prop, which bent like a banana.

Continuing the off topic, I was a chainman in a survey office when someone walked away from a theodolite set up on the centreline of a railway track. Along came the train…

I have seen it argued that the risk of a hose clamp penetrating the filter case is greater than teh risk of theh filter coming loose.

Many airfields charge an annual access fee for aircraft based there. This is on top of hangar lease fees, which go to the hangar owner. Do you pay an access fee and if so, how much? Are there discounts available for certain situations or voluntary airfield maintenance? Thanks, Peter

The published pre takeoff checklist for my Foxbat has about 50 items in it. I would like to whittle it down to ten or so. Otherwise I just skim the list and could miss something. My Archer list is much shorter.

WTF